The cosmos has a way of rewriting its own rulebook, and a single blast of high-energy light has just forced astronomers back to the first page. Earlier this year, a gamma-ray outburst that raged for ...

A strange X-ray beacon from deep space has revived a decades-old mystery and opened a window onto one of the universe’s most violent possibilities. Astronomers now suspect that this flicker in the ...

Some 2.5 million years ago, viruses in Lake Tanganyika experienced an unexplained explosion in diversity. A new study analyzing iron-60 found in the lakebed suggests that the explosion of a ‘nearby’ ...

As history catches up with a pivotal moment in the "Star Trek" timeline, we look back at the events of "Past Tense," which took place on Aug. 30, 2024. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

On March 19, one of NASA's Deep Space Network facilities — located in Canberra, Australia — entered its 60th year of relaying priceless information between scientists on Earth and the spacecraft they ...

Officials celebrate the completion of a new ESA deep space communications antenna at the New Norcia site in Western Australia. Credit: ESA SYDNEY — The European Space Agency has inaugurated a new deep ...

NASA plant physiologist Ray Wheeler, Ph.D., and fictional astronaut Mark Watney from the movie “The Martian” have something in common they are both botanists. But that’s where the similarities end.

This screenshot from CCTV (China Central Television) shows China’s first moon rover Yutu, or Jade Rabbit, in an image taken by the camera on the Chang’e 3 moon lander, Dec. 15, 2013. China does not ...

A 3.5-gallon volume of deep space, specifically within the Milky Way's Orion-Cygnus Arm, would contain approximately 4 million neutrinos and about 13,000 gas atoms, predominantly hydrogen and helium.

Thirty-two years ago today, Deep Space Nine's explosive introduction to Sisko gave us a Star Trek hero unlike any other. Reading time 4 minutes In a first bold move that would prove to be one of many ...